Public Health

  • Working for a non-profit HIV/AIDS program, coordinating peer-counseling programs to promote health education and voluntary testing in a small village outside Mnarani.
  • Working for a clinic run by the African Medical Research Foundation that provides basic health services to the Maasai community.
  • Working with nurses on HIV/AIDS issues among under-privileged youth and women, by teaching youth about reproductive health and teaching mothers about childcare and healthy living.

Women's Issues

  • Researching female genital mutilation and increasing awareness of the issue.

Small Business Development

  • Assisting in a center that tries to alleviate poverty by training youth on sustainable use of available natural resources and helps them to set up small enterprises.
  • Marketing the products of a vocational training center, such as pottery and beadwork, to shops in Nairobi.
  • Working for a non-profit's micro-credit program to develop promotional materials and assess the utilization of the loans given to the community health workers in Nyanza.
  • Working to produce and market products for a small flour-making factory.

Environmental Protection

  • Developing a nature trail near a lake area with the World Wide Fund for Nature.
  • Working at a sanctuary with a public organization to help solve the human-elephant conflict.
  • Studying the costs, disease transmission and genetic issues surrounding the translocation of rhinos and giraffes.

  • Educating students about wildlife and environmental conservation.

Education

  • Working as an assistant in an orphanage nursery school for HIV/AIDS infected and affected children.
  • Working with the administration at a school for Maasai girls who have been rescued from early marriages to create promotional materials and to teach computer lessons to students and staff.
  • Educating women about their rights through an indigenous non-profit organization fighting for the rights and interests of the Ogiek hunter and gatherer community.
  • Caring for children in a home for orphaned, destitute and former street children and also helping with the school at the home that has very limited resources.

Sustainable Agriculture

  • Organizing seminars on new agricultural techniques for a sustainable agricultural training center.

Social Services

  • Studying the psychological well-being of the Ugandans living in a United Nations refuge camp.

Community Organizing

  • Working with a girls club and women's groups to evaluate their progress in using credit from programs like Action Aid Kenya.
  • Working with the HIV/AIDS social workers to help affected families with farm work and repairing their houses.
  • Teaching Internet access classes at a community resource center that brings awareness to the HIV/AIDS reality.
 
Last modified on May 20, 2008